The Genocide going on in Darfur Sudan, is an unimaginable conflict. It started in early 2003, and has only gotten worse. Hundreds of thousands of people are being murdered and starved to death by there own government. An estimated 2.5 million people have been displaced or were sent to a refugee camp. The two groups involved are the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed militia. It is sad that there own government is supporting the Janjaweed by giving them money and assistance on there attacks on civilian villages. It didn't matter if you were young, old, women, man, the Janjaweed killed everybody.
The sad part about this conflict is that nobody is doing anything to stop it. The UN (United Nations) has known about this since 2003 and is still deciding on who should take action on it. This is one of the worst genocide, humanitarian disasters yet. The Sudan government is claiming National Sovereignty which is the right were county's make there own laws. So, this is were it comes down to, National Sovereignty or Human Rights. Which is more important? There is a significant amount of human rights being violated over in Sudan.
This situation relates to what happened in Germany with the Holocaust. A ethnic group like the Jews were targeted because they were not saw as a German citizen. In this case, various ethnic groups are being targeted in Sudan and either killed or starved to death. The Germans put the Jews into concentration camps where they were either killed or forced to work. These camps were in terrible condition and served just enough food to survive. Approximately 2.5 million people in Sudan were forced out of there homes and were sent to camps which were commonly made of sticks/wood and blankets.
One of the pictures our group posted was of a Sudanese man with a gun and bullets. Next to him was the country of Sudan half covered in blood. This picture gives a good idea of what is going on in Darfur. I see it as the Janjaweed have massacred Sudan and have accomplished what they were trying to do. Eliminate all ethnic minorities. Another picture was of the Janjaweed burning down a couple of huts in a village. To the right were the owners of the hut just standing and watching, not doing anything because they knew if they did the consequences would be worse than death. (torture). All these pictures made me think, how can a human being, be so cruel and unhuman?
I have not heard a lot about this conflict. I knew there was something going on in Sudan but I did now know that it has gotten this bad and no-one has done anything about it. Now that i have researched it I have a lot better understanding of the conflict. This needs to stop as soon as possible. I believe we should move our troops out of Iraq and focus on the situation in Darfur which as the UN put it, "the worst Humanitarian crisis in the world today".
DAN HINTZ
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I think that Dan is making a great points here. I think when he says that "Nothing is being done" hes really making a good point. I highly agree with him and I also think that there needs to be something done about the situation.
Dan's refletion is very good and well put together. It is good that dan cares so much. I said this about Pruthvi, but if we have more sensitive people like Dan something would get done in Darfur
I think Dan did a really good job reaserching and getting good information so he can write it in his own words and he did a great job doing so. This is one of my favorite reflections so far
In my opinion i think Dan had a great reflection. i really liked how he put together all of his information and made 5 strong paragraph. If i didnt know anything about this and i read Dan's reflection i would know everything that went on, it was really good.
I like Dan's opinion. This reflection shows that he learned alot about Darfur and the terrible things that the citizens are going through.
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